Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to PSP Minis' Third Official GOTY Topic.
What do you think will be your Game of the Year, and what Awesome Games Not Necessarily Released in 2016 are you playing/will you play?
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Nothing better to do right now, might as well, right?
Here's my favorite games of 2016.
No top five or ten, or sorted by console, just a random list of games I really liked that came out this year. I'll try to be as concise as possible. Failing, probably.
TL;DR, read the stuff in bold.

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth was 100‰ going to be part of this from the moment I laid eyes upon it. Look at that post of mine from seven months ago.
Great RPG with decent characters, great music, and a really addictive (De-)Digivolve system. Absolutely no flaws found here, except a certain absolutely terrible dungeon, and not-very-balanced difficulties.

Kirby: Planet Robobot. It's a Kirby game, so things like an amazing soundtrack, fun bosses (sans the last one, but only in my opinion, apparently) and nice minigames and extra modes are par for the course.
Still, I miss Superstar Ultra. So expensive nowadays.

BlazBlue: Central Fiction. Despite the horrible, horrible lack of the amazing dub every other game in the series featured, this still is the best 2D fighting game I've ever played. An insane amount of characters, stages, music, modes (the Abyss mode is better than ever), topped-off by an even better version of the fantastic gameplay BlazBlue is known for.

Then there are honorable mentions such as Furi and Rhythm Heaven Megamix. I did like them a lot, but they were too short to be fully enjoyed, and had several problems, respectively.

...Then there's Final Fantasy XV. It was a rollercoaster of emotions, but in the end, it was still severely underwhelming and boring and unfinished. The more I think about, the more I'm angry and/or sad.

...THEN there's Dark Souls III of which I played 4 hours at best and I can't say much about it. "Bloodborne was better", is all I can say.

As for my MAGPi2016NNRi2016, that's a tough one. So many of the games that make up my top 10 I played this year.
I should just say Bloodborne, as that's my second-favorite of all time (or absolute favorite, nostalgia notwithstanding) but I started playing it last year, not this one. And that's cheeeating.
On the other hand, I reached the second half, the one that made me fall in love with the game, this year.
Anyway, I guess it's Nier. Or Undertale. Or Shin Megami Tensei IV. Or Atelier Shallie, that was a pleasant surprise, too.
...Okay, Nier.

It's a tie for me: Resident Evil 5 & Valkyria Chronicles Remastered. Sad thing about it, they are both rereleases from the generation prior.

Games I was hyped for underwhelmed as they got closer, so I chose to get them at later dates. Games like Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Still haven't opened The Last Guardian yet, so maybe that'll be good. I doubt 2017 is going to be much better, but at least there's Nier: Automata to look forward to.